Simply Nature

We as humans cannot deny our unprecedented ability to discover, alter, and create. Whether it be the stretching of concrete highways across the countryside or extracting crude matter from deep within the earth and using it to energize our use of the highways, our drive for dominance over nature exists and distorts our appreciation for the entire environment we live in. As Newton impressed generally, every action mankind takes within nature has an opposite and equal reaction and whether we as individuals choose to regard the natural world in our actions is dependent completely upon ourselves, with consequences, or, on the more positive side, change. Consciousness and morality on the endless wonders that our home planet affords us is the avalanche that shapes the mountainous appreciation that nature does not belong to us. We belong to nature.

The earth is one living, breathing organism functioning to an unacknowledged cause using every event within as a balanced happening of existence. Nature consists of highs and lows. Where there is drought, somewhere else there is flooding rain. Where there are frigid temperatures, there is someone somewhere else sweltering in the sun. When one tree falls to the forest floor, another tree disperses a seed into the cycle of life. Nature is balanced. Now, the infusion of humankind into nature must be acknowledged. Everything in existence within our precious planet is derived from nature; the woods, the metals, the diamonds, the airplanes, the computers, the cell phones. They all come from the earth. If not, where else would you say they did come from? Nature provides everything and so much of immeasurable amounts more for humans to exist far beyond necessity. Because of the natural progression that nature affords, humans have developed new abilities in such an advanced way that we have established the means of altering our planet and its contents in order to make our lives easier. By making our lives easier, the raw essences of life; food, water, oxygen, and general survival, have become second nature to us. Immediate nature has become the things that mankind has needed to physically alter in order to use. These commodities have warped our perception of existence into something so much shallower than that of our ancestors. We no longer worship the sun or the rain or any natural elements because we have done everything within our powers to control them for personal simplicity. When there is no sunlight, there are light bulbs and electricity. When there is no rain, there is bottled water. When there is intense heat, there is air conditioning. We do not, as a society, care about the world we live in. It has become something taken for granted.

Our planet naturally balances out the events that unfold within. When humans dispose of a cigarette butt, the earth works a little bit harder for about five years to recycle it naturally back into its cycle of existence. The long term effects of this pollution consist of various changes in the environment. But humans are meant to exist on this planet! If we weren’t, these words would not be on this page and they would certainly not be read. Our actions have effects, and while they may be considerably small or controversially astronomical in relevance to the size of the earth, the things we do change the earth. The question is: do we want the earth to change? Most likely no. We have been surviving as one organism of life since the beginning, of course, and that is the essence of nature. Our actions, in knowledge that they have effects on the earth, lead to change and the only way to combat such change is to devote appreciation to the planet on the whole. Without this planet, we would have nothing. Everything must be done in preservation of our planet, of our survival, of our existence.